Measuring Heart Rate In Water; Start A Swimming Session; During Your Swim - Polar Electro Vantage M User Manual

MEASURING HEART RATE IN WATER

Your watch automatically measures your heart rate from your wrist with the new Polar Precision Prime
sensor fusion technology, offering an easy and comfortable way to measure your heart rate while swim-
ming. Although water may prevent the wrist-based heart rate measurement from working optimally, the
accuracy of Polar Precision Prime is sufficient to allow you monitor your average heart rate and heart
rate zones during your swimming sessions, get accurate calorie burn readings, your Training Load from
the session and the Training Benefit feedback based on your heart rate zones.
To ensure the best possible accuracy of your heart rate data, it's important to wear the watch snugly on
your wrist (even more snugly than in other sports). See
tions on wearing your watch during training.
Note that you can't use a Polar heart rate sensor with a chest strap with your watch when swimming
because Bluetooth doesn't work in water.

START A SWIMMING SESSION

1. Press BACK to enter the main menu, choose Start training, and then browse to the Swimming,
Pool swimming or Open water swimming profile.
2. When using the Swimming/Pool swimming profile, check that the pool length is correct
(shown on the display). To change the pool length, press LIGHT to access the Pool length setting
and set the correct length.
3. Press START to begin training recording.

DURING YOUR SWIM

You can customize what is shown on the display in the sport profiles section in the Flow web service. The
default training views in the swimming sport profiles the following information:
Your heart rate and the heart rate ZonePointer
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Distance
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Duration
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Rest time (Swimming and Pool swimming)
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Pace (Open water swimming)
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Heart rate graph
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Average heart rate
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Maximum heart rate
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Time of day
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Training with wrist based heart rate
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